{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-streets-etc-act-1690/section-XVII",
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  "legislation": "aep/WillandMarSess2/2/8",
  "legislation_title": "London Streets, etc. Act 1690",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-streets-etc-act-1690",
  "path": "section/XVII",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "XVII",
  "heading": "Wheels of Carts, Drays, &c. how to be made.",
  "text": "Penalty 40s. Proviso for Country Carts.\nAnd whereas the Wheeles of many Carts Carrs and Brewers Drays now commonly used for the Carriage of Goods Beere Ale and other things from place to place within the Cities of London and Westminster and Parishes aforesaid where the Streets are paved are made thinner or narrower in the Felleys then formerly and many are shod with Iron Tyres by means whereof the Pavements in the Streets of the said Cities and places are dayly impaired and broaken up and made dirty and rough For prevention whereof for the time to come Bee it therefore enacted by the authoritie aforesaid That from and after the said fifteenth day of December the Wheels of every Cart Carr or Dray to be used for the Carriage of any thing whatsoever from any place within the said Cities and places to any place scituate in the said Cities and places where the Streets are paved shall be made to containe the full breadth of six Inches in the Felley and shall not be wrought about with any Iron Worke whatsoever nor be drawne with above the number of two Horses after they are up the Hills from the Waterside And the Owners and Proprietors of any Cart Carr or Dray to be used as aforesaid the Wheels whereof shall not be made six Inches in the breadth or shall be shod with Iron or be drawne with above two Horses as aforesaid shall forfeit the Summe of forty shillings for every time such Cart Carr or Dray shall be used as aforesaid for the Uses and to be levyed as aforesaid Provided neverthelesse That this shall not extend to any Country Cart or Waggon that shall bring any Goods to the Cities or places aforesaid or shall carry any Goods halfe a mile beyond the paved Streets of the said Cities and places",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "annexed to the Original Act in a separate Schedule."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/WillandMarSess2/2/8/section/XVII",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:25:52.311554+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}